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Good hygiene in calves lessens diarrhea threat

Dear Dr Othieno

I have three calves on my farm and expecting another two. I normally feed them milk from buckets. I recently observed two of them suffered diarrhea though it wasn’t serious. The diarrhea coincided with change of farm hands. Could this be a contributing factor? If so, what can I do to avoid such cases? My neighbour also told me that bucket feeding could cause calf diarrhea. How true is this? Kindly shed some light on this.

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